claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [BUG]Token compensation request — Auto Mode classifier outage [1 participants]

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What's Wrong?

Anthropic's Opus 4.6 classifier (used by Auto Mode to safety-check every Write/Edit/Bash call) is returning "temporarily unavailable." Reads (Glob, Grep, Read) still work, but I can't write any files until it recovers. This is a server-side outage on Anthropic, not your project, settings, or tokens.

What Should Happen?

Hi team,

I'm requesting token compensation for all sessions affected by the Opus 4.6 classifier outage in Auto Mode.

Issue: Every Write/Edit/Bash call in Auto Mode is failing with "claude-opus-4-7[1m] is temporarily unavailable, so auto mode cannot determine the safety of Write right now." This is server-side on Anthropic — reads work, writes are blocked. Claude has been re-reading files, retrying writes, and scheduling wakeups while waiting for the classifier to recover, all of which has burned tokens with zero output produced.

Impact across sessions: the classifier failure has caused repeated retries, context re-loads, and stalled work on a multi-file dashboard rewrite, plus token waste in earlier sessions today.

Account: [email protected]

Please credit the wasted tokens across all impacted sessions today.

Thanks, Mark Sedrak —

Error Messages/Logs

claude-opus-4-7[1m] is temporarily unavailable, so auto mode cannot determine the safety of Write right now. Wait briefly and then try this action again. If it keeps failing, continue with other tasks that don't require this action and come back to it later. Note: reading files, searching code, and other read-only operations do not require the classifier and can still be used.

Steps to Reproduce

Enable Auto Mode in Claude Code. Ask Claude to perform any task requiring Write or Edit (e.g. "create a new component file"). Claude attempts the Write tool. Tool returns the "temporarily unavailable" classifier error. All subsequent Write/Edit attempts return the same error indefinitely. Toggling Auto Mode off bypasses the issue, but tokens already spent on retries and re-reads are not recovered.

Claude Model

Opus

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

2.1.90 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

Model: Claude Opus 4.7 (claude-opus-4-7), classifier claude-opus-4-6[1m] Platform: macOS Darwin 22.6.0, zsh Account: [email protected] Requesting token compensation for all sessions today affected by this outage — multiple multi-file tasks stalled with zero output produced while tokens continued to be consumed on retries, re-reads, and scheduled wakeups. Suggested fix: when the classifier is unavailable, fail fast or fall back to a default-deny prompt rather than letting the agent burn tokens retrying indefinitely.